Sabo Eban, registered Devon bull, sired by Rotokawa 974, dam Rotokawa 930.  Full rumped, gentle, intelligent, fertile, 49″ at the shoulder.  Eban will build rumps, moderate frame size, easy calving, and gentleness into any crossbred herd, with excellent tender beef for grassfed production.  Ask our butcher (Wayne Worley, Montana’s Best Meats, Whitehall, MT 406-287-3457)!

Sabo Eban, Rotokawa Devon bull, just back from 6 weeks with our beef herd (photographed Oct 5, 2011).  Trim, fit, and ready for more work!  Eban is an embryo bull, raised by a Red Angus mother here on our ranch at 5200′ elevation.  Born May 19, 2009, Eban is ready for a long life of herd improvement.   Interested?  Contact us a 406-685-3248, or saboranch1@gmail.com.

Sabo Eban, showing terrific teat placement for balanced udders in his daughters.  $7000, embryo bred by Bakewell Reproductive Co., born and raised at Sabo Ranch, Harrison, MT 59735.  (406-685-3248)

SABO FRANCIS, a registered fullblood DEVON embryo bull born and raised here on Sabo Ranch at 5200' elevation in the foothills of the Tobacco Root Mountains of MONTANA, is a gentle, deep chested, full rumped bull with great feet. Sire: Rotokawa 982, Dam: Watson Farm Sarina. Born 5/22/09, photographed here in Feb. of 2011. FRANCIS is of moderate frame, about 50" at his well-crested shoulder. $3600. Questions? Contact owners Mark and Jenny Sabo, (406)685-3248, or saboranch1@gmail.com. Mail: P.O.Box 65, Harrison, MT 59735

SABO FRANCIS IS SOLD, Sept. 2100.  Subscribe to our website for news about 2012 calves!  email: saboranch1@gmail.com

Devon cow "Lakota's Own M70" in her new home in the mountains of southwest Montana, at Sabo Ranch in Harrison. M70 has adapted well to our 4000' elevation, grassfed diet, and red and black herdmates. We will be breeding her to our Rotokawa Devon bull Sabo Ben, and can't wait to see a whole herd of these Devons!

Another Devon heifer for Sabo Ranch! With the birth of Sabo Ella, V10, we boosted our female Devon count to 10! Daughter of Lakota's Own M70, little Ella is feisty, healthy, and happy playing in the fields with her 2 other Devon herdmates from this year.

SABO ABBY (Sire: Rotokawa 93, Dam: Rotokawa 958) photographed Feb 2010, after a winter eating only standing grass and 20 lbs/day of 1st cutting hay.

SABO ABBY, just after she was born in a May Montana snowstorm, the first of our 2008 calves. Abby is an ET(embryo transplant) calf, borne and nursed by one of our Red Angus heifers.

SABO ABBY is the first of our growing herd of purebred Rotokawa Devon cattle.  The eldest of our 8 current Rotokawa Devons, Abby is gentle, intelligent, and remarkably easy keeping.  Although she was carried by and born to our most slender Red Angus cow (in her first pregnancy!), Abby is showing her Devon genetics well.   We will be harvesting embryos from Abby this summer.   We look towards increasing our Montana-born Rotokawa Devons for ourselves, and other cattle ranchers seeking their easy keeping, easy fleshing, tender, 100% grassfed genetics.

ABBY is not for sale, as we are building our current herd.  We will not be selling our Rotokawa embryo Devon heifers (Sabo Abby, Belle, Callie, or Dora), but will be harvesting embryos once from each of them, and might have embryos for sale if all goes well on that endeavor.  ABBY’s full brother, Sabo BEN, is for sale, photos coming soon!

We have more Rotokawa ET bull calves (born May 2009) here than we will need, and will be selecting which to sell next spring, 2011.  They are looking terrific at the moment, even in the dead of winter!  Look for a post coming soon with photos of our 2009 crop of Rotokawa Devons!

For more information about our Rotokawa Devons, or our Devon crossbred cattle, contact us at (406)685-3248, saboranch@gmail.com

Sabo Ranch Red Angus cows with their Devon/Angus calves, grazing on a lovely June day

Jenny and Mark Sabo

Sabo Ranch Field Day 2009

Come Meet the Sabos and Tour the Sabo Ranch – Saturday, June 19, 2010, 11:00am-4:00pm.  Tent Provided this year for dry/shaded eating!!!

100% Grassfed DEVON and JERSEY Cattle, Management Intensive Grazing, Off Grid Living, Eating Local Foods, Grassfed Beef, Pastured Pork, Pastured Poultry.  Only 150 Spaces available, Local Food Lunch served.

After Lunch SEMINARS: 2:00-4:00pm

1. GOOD FOOD/GOOD FUTURES- How to Source Great Local Food HERE!, Keep yourself Healthy all year on Local Food, and Why Your Purchases will Change our LOCAL ECONOMY for all of us.

2. FAMILY DAIRY ANIMALS- How to Choose the Best Genetics for Family and Friends, How to Keep Animals and Milk CLEAN AND HEALTHY.

Tour with Jenny and Mark Sabo will discuss:

– Breeding Jersey cattle to A2/A2 New Zealand bulls, tightening breeding season towards seasonal milking.

– Rotokawa Devon cattle:  Harvesting embryos from “Sabo Abby”, our first Rotokawa Devon, implanting in other Sabo Red Angus previous recipient cows, using seasonal fertility patterns in cattle. Testing for A2/A2 status in Devon Herd.

– More Management Intensive Grazing (MIG)practices with beef cattle

Tour and Meal:  $15/Adult, Children 12& under FREE. 

**$7.50/Young Farmers 12-21(free with reservation before 5/1/10)**.

Sabo Rotokawa Devon calves

We are very happy with this year’s crop of Embryo Transplant Rotokawa Devon calves.  Pictured here, bull calf #630, and heifer #692 (they carry their Red Angus recipient mothers’ numbers in this photo), two of eight born on Sabo Ranch this year.  These calves are easy keeping, docile, inteligent, and a joy to have around. 

Sabo Abel at 5 years old, the end of breeding season

“Sabo Abel”, born spring 2004, our current herd bull. Abel is an “embryo transplant” calf, born in western Montana.  Parentage-dam: Harrier Field Farms 414, sire: Rotokawa 688.

Abel has 100% breed-back within our 45 day breeding season (three years running), and we are very pleased at how he has added depth, meat, and easy fleshing onto our Devon/Red Angus calves.